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Friday, April 4, 2008

Oooookaaaaay……………..
it’s been a long time since i last posted an entry.
uber busy....
anyway, super dami na ng ikkwento ko pero im just going to summarize the events...
first, i changed schools.
from pellegrini to herman hollerith.
in pellegrini, we were 39 students jammed in a classroom half the size of the rooms in mandsci....
in hollerith, we are 12 students (3 are exchange students) in a room the size of our classrooms in mandsci...
i like my new school. in my class, we are 3 exchange students.
me, rebecca from germany, and simon from new zealand...
rebecca doesnt seem to be a german.
i mean, she doesnt even seem to be a european.
generally, (hate to overgeneralize but that’s an instinctive nature) europeans are known to be cold.
we always tease sebastian of austria that he really isnt from austria coz he’s anything but cold.
rebecca told me that she’s actually a ‘weird’ german. she doesnt smoke, doesnt like to drink a lot, doesnt have any boyfriend, doesnt f*ck around...
i mean, if you want to meet a typical german, you have to meet cedric.
your typical tall, blond, blue-eyed cutie.
simon doesnt speak spanish yet so i talk to him in english. he’s got a really strong english accent but now im getting used to it.
at first, it seemed to me that he was like speaking a different language coz his accent is so different. now, everything’s fine.
in our class, there’s a guy who can speak english very well. name is leòn. we kept on telling him to talk with simon in spanish so that the poor boy can learn. i mean, you cant survive one year without knowing spanish.
but i can understand leòn. i mean, it’s easier to talk to simon in english. i kept on speaking with him in spanish but he just looks at me and says ‘hmm... in english?’...
i mean, it really depends on the person.
if you really want to learn, you will learn.
when i just arrived here, i was talking to my hostsister with a dictionary in hand.
it’s really up to you if you want to learn.
and i swear, whether you like it or not, you have to learn.
you cant go around argentina without knowing spanish. that’s the most stupid thing to do. if you’re a tourist, go get a translator. but if you’re an exchange student, learn.
there are no options here, dude.

last Friday i went out with may (thailand), her sister natalia, lorenzo (australia), simon (NZ), kyle (USA), leòn (arg)
kyle is cute.
unfortunately he has to leave early coz he has to go to his ‘futbol’ game. (that’s soccer)
then the six of us rented a movie. lady in the water by m. night shyamalan. went to may and natalia’s house then we just fooled around...
then at around 11 in the evening, we finished watching the movie. then lorenzo asked us, i mean, he obliged us to go out.
so i sent a msg to my hostmom saying that i’ll go home late coz im with the other exchange stus.
she replied ‘ok. behave.’
hey, i always behave well...
most of the times. hehehe...
so, we went out. it was actually raining but umbrellas arent popular with the teenage crowd so we were soaking wet...
and here, if it’s raining, it’s freaking cold.
i still cant understand why umbrellas arent popular with the teen crowd. i mean, even if the sun is soooooo bright and it’s as if you’re inside a heated oven, nobody uses an umbrella...
and even if it’s pouring like the gods of the heavens are waging wars, nobody uses a freaking umbrella...
why is that so?
anyway, so we went to this bar (cant remember the name), but there wasnt any available table.
so i told them that we can go to this bar known as ‘Costumbres Argentina’.
we entered, then the menu was given to us, then we ordered vodka.
then the waitress asked us if we’ve got any documents with us. (every argentine citizen has a small passport-like booklet that shows their birthdate and every other stuff that you can think of.)
okay. the thing is the only people who are of age that moment were leòn and lorenzo. both are 18 years old. the rest of us were 17 (simon), 16 (me and natalia), and 15 (may).
leòn didnt bring his document. so the only person who has something to show was lorenzo. he showed his australian license.
then, the waitress told us that she’s going to ask the counter first because the bar has a rule that the majority of the people sitting in the table should have documents with them to be able to order alcoholic beverages.
then, after a few moments, she returned and told us that the counter wont allow her.
so we left that bar.
even though i cant understand why the counter wont let us order drinks. i mean, before the welcome party for the new students, the students who arrived last year went to that bar to ‘plan’ the party.
we were like around 12 people. and everyone was drinking.
so i dont know why the counter wouldnt let us order.
so anyway, we left that bar and we went to another.
i swear, i was like sneezing every five minutes coz it was raining and it was sooo cold.
i suggested a bar. Plaza de Almas. but we came upon another bar before we reached plaza de almas.
that moment, we had a plan...
no one’s going to speak in spanish. we’re all exchange students except for leòn, our supposed-to-be ‘consejero’ (that’s adviser in english)
natalia, may’s hostsis, can mimic may’s thai accent. so we were like, okay, where are you from???
we told her that if anyone asks her, she has to say that she’s from quebec, canada.
okay.... so we ordered. we were all speaking in english. then i heard lorenzo and natalia speak in spanish.
i mean, hey, you two were supposed to be ‘exchange stus who recently arrived’.
goodness,,,
so i ordered gancia, lorenzo ordered cosmopolitan, may ordered daikiri, simon ordered piel de iguana (translation: iguana skin... hehe... but it was delicious, really!), and leòn ordered fernet. natalia didnt order anything.
so we were talking in spanish (english with simon)
then when the waitress came to give us our drinks, the language magically switched to english.
it was such a huge joke....
okay, so it was either the plan worked or the waitress just didnt care if we were minors or what.
after that, it was already 3:30 in the morning. we just walked around the town. lorenzo and may were tipsy.
so after fooling around, we decided to go back to may and natalia’s house.
there we decided to play truth or dare.
im cutting it short. let’s just say that it wasnt anything like those truth or dare sessions that we’ve had.

last Saturday, there was a big party here in my house.
it was basically to celebrate majo’s birthday even though her bday was on march 17
i swear, parties here are so different from the parties back there.
there, parties mean food.
here, parties mean booze.
the party lasted from 11 in the evening up to 7 in the morning the next day...
ok. im cutting it short again. let’s just say that it has been totally fun.

the next day, a batchmate of majo sent me a msg that goes, ‘hi. since when do you have a boyfriend?’
i was like ‘WHO? ME? WITH WHO? WHAAAAT?’
he replied, ‘the tall guy from other country. blond and with eyeglasses.’
oooooooooooookay....................
the only one who fits that profile was simon of NZ.
what the hell. where did that come from?
obviously, i asked. the guy replied that they though that simon is my boyfriend.
obviously, i asked again why. he told me that it’s because simon kept on following me around, and we were together during the entire party, and we were dancing together throughout the night, and that we were cuddling on the sofa...
................ting............ting................ting..............
hey...! i dont have any idea why he was following me around. we were together during the party, yes... but the other exchange stus were also with us. we were dancing, yes, but i dont see anything wrong with that. and we were NOT cuddling on the sofa.
there is an explanation for that. im cutting it short again but we werent cuddling, i swear. i mean, cuddling is ‘cuddling’ and we really werent cuddling ‘cuddling’.

last Tuesday, i went to the ‘Centro de Salud’ since im a volunteer in that hospital. then, keith(USA) and I went to marilia’s house.
it was 2:30 and we were STARVING.
we started to phone home delivery pizzas and whatever that we can eat... but after 2 in the afternoon, they dont deliver lunch anymore.
so it was raining again. marilia sent keith and me to buy some burger patties.
the thing is argentina is in a crisis at this moment.
the distribution of cow products (meat, milk, cheese, everything) has been stopped. no one knows until when. so of course, burger patties are out, too.
so we just bought sausages or hotdogs.. dunno.

keith is 20yrs old. but he doesnt seem to be.
he seems to be 16 or 17 or something like that.
and i cant believe that he hasnt kissed anyone before.
i mean, he’s 20 and he’s from the USA (highland county, michigan)... it was just shocking for me.

it’s getting colder here now. i mean, winter’s approaching...

in 3 months, im going back home...
i want to go back home. really. i miss everyone...
but i also want to stay here for a while... i mean, this country is soooo pretty. (and argentina is an enormous country... for a country this big, they sure dont have a population that large...)
and i dont have any idea when i can visit it again.
i swear, im going to go back here again. this is my second country.
and im getting used to the culture.

this is getting longer... have to cut it short now.
till here!!

btw, i posted new pixx in my multiple site.

((propphi))::: gonna tell you every single detail when i go back home... i swear, 24 hrs wont be enough. mwaaaaaa.....

((constitutional rights)):: it’s been 2 months since u last phoned me. i’ve got heaps to share,,, phone me, phone me, phone me!!!! take care...

XOXO

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saccharine spice

[+] full-time UP Diliman BS Chemical Engineering student
[+] 50% Filipina (by citizenship) 50% Chinese (by blood)
[+] true-blue argentine kiddo
[+] bookworm
[+] mangaddicted
[+] trilingual (filipino, english, spanish)
[+] aspiring writer
[+] appreciates learning and beauty
[+] dreamer
[+] traveller at heart
[+] linguist wanna-be (at least 5 languages!)
[+] looks at the world through multicolored glasses

esteemed authors

in order as dictated by my memory

+ neil gaiman
+ michael crichton
+ sidney sheldon
+ stephen king
+ jeffery deaver
+ caleb carr
+ kathy reisch
+ christopher pike
+ chuck palahniuk
+ clive staples lewis
+ john katzenbach
+ john ronald reuel tolkien
+ anne rice
+ peter beere
+ heather graham
+ richie tankersley cusick
+ ian fleming
+ chris wooding
+ patricia cornwell
+ mary higgins clark
+ stephen coonts
+ vladimir nabokov
+ agatha christie
+ robert lawrence stine
+ dean koontz
+ john grisham
+ jonathan kellerman
+ paulo coehlo
+ roald dahl
+ lewis carroll
+ sir james matthew barrie
+ frank baum
+ mark twain
+ michael connelly
+ arthur conan doyle
+ edgar allan poe
+ piers anthony
+ clive barker
+ tamora pierce
+ mary wollstonecraft shelley
+ bram stoker
+ dan brown
+ edith wharton
+ sue grafton
+ william blatty

anime/manga

as far as i can recall, these are the animes/mangas that i've read and/or watched. currently still incomplete. blame my memory.

[] one piece
[] battle royale
[] get backers
[] death note
[] bleach
[] ouran highschool host club
[] gatekeepers
[] blood +
[] black cat
[] fushigi yuugi
[] ayashi no ceres
[] full metal panic
[] full metal alchemist
[] fruits basket
[] flame of recca
[] spiral
[] shuffle!
[] slamdunk
[] tactics
[] fate stay night
[] ultra maniac
[] tsubasa chronicle
[] evangelion
[] elfen lied
[] escaflowne
[] ghost hunt
[] elemental gelade
[] detective conan
[] darker than black
[] DNangel
[] gakuen alice
[] gakuen heaven
[] chobits
[] gundam seed/wing/destiny
[] gunslinger girl
[] dot hack SIGN
[] dot hack legend of the twilight
[] harukanaru toki no naka de
[] hayate no gotoku
[] hunter x hunter
[] inuyasha
[] kyou kara maou
[] hana yori dango
[] hanazakari no kimitachi e
[] zombie-loan
[] vampire knight
[] loveless
[] yuyu hakusho
[] you're under arrest
[] yami no matsuei
[] wolf's rain
[] xxxholic
[] weiss kreuz
[] naruto
[] prince of tennis
[] rosario + vampire
[] saiyuki
[] pretear
[] shaman king
[] special A
[] B.O.D.Y.
[] koukou debut
[] kimi wa petto
[] boku ni natta watashi
[] codebreaker
[] lost+brain
[] doubt
[] eternal sabbath
[] luck stealer
[] number
[] liar game
[] kyou koi wo hajimemasu
[] deadman wonderland
[] mirai nikki [future diary]
[] saboten no himitsu
[] koizora
[] majin tantei nougami neuro
[] 07ghost
[] camelot garden
[] blank slate
[] beast master
[] pandora hearts
[] [switch]
[] kuroshitsuji
[] d.gray-man
[] wild ones
[] trinity blood

nexus

propphi anne fernando